Historic documentation for the 2024 CDSG Conference: RCWs, RCBs, maps, aerial photos, inspection reports, battery construction correspondance, quartermaster building records, engineer notebook, harbor defense project reports, history of the Key West harbor defenses

Key West set 1 zip file

Key West set 2 zip file

FORT TAYLOR /Key West / 1846-(1947) / state park, Naval Reservation […]

Documentation for the 2024 CDSG Special Tour: RCWs, RCBs, Inspection reports, Battery Construction correspondance, enginerr notebook, maps, a history of the Tampa Bay defenses, all in a zip file. Click the link to download and save to your computer.

Tampa zip file

FORT DADE / Egmont Key / 1899-(1928)/ state park (1989) / MD, MC /K

unnamed/2/ […]

FORT PICKENS /Santa Rosa Island /1845-(1947)/ Gulf Islands National Seashore / MD, MC /KKKK

Langdon/2/12″/BCLR/1923-1947/casemated-WWII
Worth/8/12″/M/1899-1942/4 guns removed 1918, HECP-HDCP 1943
Pensacola/2/12″/DC/1899-1935
Cullum/2/10″/DC/1898-1918/ modified for 2 – 3″ from Trueman 1942
Sevier/2/10″/DC/1898-1934
Cooper/2/ 6″/DC/1906-1917/1 gun repl. 1976, (from West Point) SE
#234/2/ 6″/SBC/ 194? NA /2 guns repl. 1976 (from Ft. J. Custis) SE
Van Swearingen/2/4.7″/A/1898-1921/one gun & carr at Danielsville, GA
Trueman/2/ 3″/P/1905-1942/guns […]

FORT MORGAN /Mobile Point / 1833-(1928) /state park /MD, MC /KKKK

Dearborn/8/12″/M/1901-1928
Duportail/2/12″/DC/1900-1928
Test/1/10″/DC/1916-1918/mostly buried
Bowyer/4/ 8″/DC/1898-1918//
Thomas/2/4.7″/A/1899-1918
Schenck/2/ 3″/MP/1900-1923
&/1/ 3″/P/1900-1923
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942-1944/1 covered

FORT GAINES /Dauphin Island / 1821-(1928) / county park /KKK

unnamed/2/ 8″/Rod/1898-1899/covered by Stanton #1
Stanton/3/ 6″/DC/1901-1928
Terrett/3/ 3″/MP/1901-1923

Other Temp sites /?

unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/ Pascagoula, MS

Mobile Bay, AL: 1921 Maps PDF (98K) 4 pages $0.20 More […]

Documents for the New Orleans CDSG Conference in 2020

CDSG Documents for the Modern-era defenses of the Mississippi river (RCBs, RCWs, maps, Quartermaster building records, battery construction correspondence files, Engineer notebook) zip file 154 MB, click link to download zip file.

FORT ST. PHILIP / north bank / 1843-(1928) 1943 / private /MD, MC / KKK?

Pike/2/10″/DC/1898-1919
unnamed/2/ […]

FORT TRAVIS /Bolivar Point (-1947) / county park /KK

Kimble/2/12″/BCLR/1922-1943/guns to Moultrie
Davis/2/ 8″/DC/1900-1918/deteriorating
#236/2/ 6″/SBC/ 194? NA
Ernst/3/ 3″/MP/1900-1946/converted to 3-in P

FORT SAN JACINTO / Fort Point / (-1947) / Corps of Eng. prop /MD, MC /K

Mercer/8/12″/M/1898-1943/ partially buried in mud
Heileman/2/10″/DC/1899-1943/ 1 gun ARF, destroyed
#235/2/ 6″/SBC/1944-1946/ partially buried
Hogan/2/ 4.7″/A/1898-1917/ partially destroyed
Croghan/2/ 3″/MP/1911-1946/ converted to 3-in P
AMTB #4/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/ […]